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Quotes about Men


Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Robert C Democritus

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Frank Crane

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Frank Crane

To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.

George Macdonald

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

William Blake

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Winston Churchill

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. Robert Kennedy The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. -Doc Childre.

Doc Childre

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. -David Hume.

David Hume

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

David Hsueh-dou

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it.

A. A. Hodge

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.

Mark Voltaire

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.

H.l. Mencken

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr.

Niels Bohr

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.

Winston Churchill

[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat)

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

Joanna Baillie

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, Howe'er his own commence, can never be But an usurper.

Henry Brooke

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

Victor Hugo

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